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    Monday, October 13th, 2008
    10:58 am
    [katyhh]
    Search for a song
    Hello LJ filk braintrust :)

    Since my brain obviously does not work all that well anymore when it comes to things looooooong ago (that I used to sing by heart *sigh*) I thought I'd ask you guys.

    I am looking for the title (and preferrably also the full lyrics) of a song I used to know and sing regularly back in ... umm ... around 1996 - the song is much older, though, I'd think it is from the mid 80s ...

    Also I do not remember whose version I learned it from, could have been Kathy Mar, could have been someone else's.

    Parts of the lyrics/chorus I remember go like this:

    And it's been just the two of us, for more time than I care to count or mark.
    Nothing much to do while we're on board and sit and stare out at the dark of space.
    And your face, or what must pass for it, has grown more than familiar to my sight.
    I wonder how I'd last this long alone, but you have filled the endless night.

    It sounds a bit like an "Enemy Mine" story to me, but then I guess it isn't. I think the title might be simply "The Two of Us" but ... *shrug*

    Any ideas / help?
    Thanks muchly :)

    Katy (who wants to dig out all the old songs cuz less and less people seem to sing them anymore, and there are such gems out there!)

    Current Mood: curious
    Sunday, October 12th, 2008
    5:36 pm
    [anomster]
    i usually don't get political in my filks...
    ...& I hope no one's offended at this one (which, BTW, is not autobiographical!). It's just that the key part fit so well when I 1st thought of it, & then when I realized what had to replace the 16-year-old virgin in the original, there was no turning back. That's right:

    VOTIN’ FOR OBAMA
    ttto “Donna,” from Hair (James Rado & Gerome Ragni)

    Once upon an ’08 election time
    There was a 60-year-old boomer
    O-bama, O-O-bama, O-O-O,
    Votin’ for Obama.

    She voted for Clinton in the primary,
    True, but ya know she ain’t no PUMA*
    O-bama, O-O-bama, O-O, she’s
    Votin’ for Obama.

    Have they polled
    That 60-year-old Baby Boomer
    I’ve been told
    That she got busted at a protest ’gainst the war
    (wait, which war?)

    Hey, back in the ’60s she might have even been that
    Psychedelic urchin!
    Now a mama, and a grandmama, O, now she’s
    Votin’ for Obama.

    A woman president...vict’ry woulda been sweet
    She had a hard time adjusting to that defeat
    But women’s issues aren’t just the issue of one woman, after all
    So she’s resolving, she’s resolving
    That she’ll ri-i-i-i-ise
    Above it all

    And that ’08’s gen’ral election time
    Will find that 60-year-old boomer
    O-bama, O-O-bama, O-O-O,
    Votin’ for Obama.

    First she was indignant, then she saw the light
    She b’lieves America has gone too far to the right
    Been on the wrong course and needs to turn aroun’
    On the envir’nment, the econ’my, and the wa-a-a-a-ar
    She won’t back down

    That's why in this ’08 election time
    There’ll be a 60-year-old boomer
    O-bama, O-O-bama, oh, yeah, she's
    Votin’ for Obama.
    Votin’ for Obama.
    Votin’ for Obama.

    VO-O-OTE!!!

    *PUMA (here pronounced "pu-mer")--an acronym for People United Means Action or Party Unity My Ass, depending on who you ask--is an organization of Hillary Clinton supporters who refuse to support Barack Obama for President, or a voter who feels the same way.
    Saturday, October 11th, 2008
    2:10 pm
    [persephone_il]
    a request for tabs
    Does anyone have the music sheet\tabs\chords\whatever for Fire in the Sky? I'm doing the translated-to-Hebrew version of it (the lyrics can be found here for the Hebrew readers in the audience) and we need the music.

    Virtual cookies for anyone who helps!

    EDIT: Found! Virtual cookies for all!
    6:55 am
    [madfilkentist]
    Boskone filk
    It's time to start planning for the Boskone filk program. Our Featured Filker will be filker-astronomer H. Paul Shuch, and I'm looking at the usual assortment of concerts, panels (just one or two), and sing-alongs.

    I think we'll do "Song Sequitur" again; it's done well in the past two years. That's a circle concert in which each of the performers must follow the previous song in some respect (tune, subject matter, obscure punning reference, etc.), but never twice in a row in the same way (e.g., if the last two songs were to "Banned from Argo," you can't follow it with another BFA parody).

    If you're interested in participating in the Boskone filk program, and especially if you'd like to do a concert, please let me know. First consideration will be given to people who didn't have sets last year. I can be reached at garym at mcgath dot com.
    Friday, October 10th, 2008
    9:58 pm
    [dan_ad_nauseam]
    OryCon Friends of Filk Volunteer Requests
    Dear Everyone:

    Our kind colleagues at Friends of Filk have asked if we can find some volunteers to help cover their table in the OryCon Dealers' Room. If anyone is interested, please send me an e-mail at dreitman at spiritone dot com or Andrew Nisbet at andrewn3 at mresearch dot com.
    Thursday, October 9th, 2008
    4:48 pm
    [bookwyrm_com]
    Pittsburgh to Ohio
    Is anybody travelling from or through Pittsburgh to Columbus before the Friday of OVFF who could take either passengers or stuff? Please?

    Especially stuff? I understand the passengers are difficult, since I have a service dog and my partner uses a wheelchair, but I have bins of stuff for kidspace and am being cheap regarding shipping.
    Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
    7:48 pm
    [pondside]
    More CD Info
    Having spent the past two years developing this CD I find it easy to forget that the rest of the world doesn't know anything much about it. Whoops..
    Thus I thought that a list of the songs on the CD might be of interest:( Read more... )

    Current Mood: amused
    4:46 pm
    [pondside]
    Live on CDBaby -- Not Just Lullabies from Planet Earth
    I just got the email -- the CD is now available from CDBaby.

    http://cdbaby.com/cd/julianamccorison


    or, you can buy it directly from me at http://pondsidemusic.com using Paypal.

    Go wander over to CDBaby and take a click -- you know you want to...

    ** If you are one of the few that have already heard the CD, could I ask you to leave a review if you liked it.

    Current Mood: accomplished
    Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
    4:46 pm
    [msminlr]
    Searching for Tom Holt
    Does anyone here know how to reach him?

    He wrote three of the 7 verses in this one song I'm planning to include on my CD and whereas I got a "verbal" okay from him last year on them, the address I have for him at zetnet.uk seems to have sunk into a black hole. I didn't even get a bounce back from MAILER-DAEMON. I need to get a snailmail addy to send the formal paperwork and (eventually) a royalty-check.
    5:31 am
    [msminlr]
    ping Lavenderbard
    Did my email about your snailmail addy get eaten by your spamtrap?

    I'm ready to start sending out permissions paperwork on my CD project that I contacted you about this-time-last-year.
    Sunday, October 5th, 2008
    2:59 am
    [pondside]
    Not Just Lullabies from Planet Earth is now available
    The songs that I love, in unique and very Juliana arrangements. There is NO such thing as too much cello, flute, mandolin, guitar, dulcimer. PondsideMusic Productions presents: Not Just Lullabies from Planet Earth

    Gentle music, playful and fun for the child inside your adult and the adult hiding in the library :)

    Debbie Ohi designed cover art, 17 tracks of studio recorded music.

    check it out, I love it, they love it, you'll love it!!

    http://pondsidemusic.com available on CDBaby sometime this week if not now... Also DigStation

    Juliana McCorison

    Current Mood: accomplished
    Saturday, October 4th, 2008
    4:10 pm
    [singingnymph]
    Anyone?
    "Scans to Argo" just reminded me. I vaguely remember a filk about a band who got sick of playing "The Wild Rover" & refuse to play it anymore.
    I found this, maybe it's it, but I swear there was another one. It says the lyrics are copyright '04 & I heard the one I'm thinking of long before that.
    http://midbards.net/lyrics/wild_rover_filk.html

    *HUGS*

    3:58 pm
    [thnidu]
    notes to "Scans to Argo"
    I've made a few small changes "Scans to Argo", some in response to suggestions, and listed all the sources.
    Friday, October 3rd, 2008
    4:39 pm
    [scifantasy]
    DC-Area Con Offering Filk Space
    So, what are DC-area filkers going to be up to two weeks from now?

    Capclave, the Washington Science Fiction Association's annual literary convention, has agreed to set aside some space for filk Friday and Saturday nights, from 10 PM onward. Several area musicians, including Rob [info]pclips Balder and Danny Birt (not well known in filk circles, that I know of, but quite talented indeed), are lined up, but more are always welcome. A good turnout may help encourage Capclave to set up some filk programming and more concerts, which would of course be a good thing...so if you're going to be in the DC area the weekend of the 17th-19th, by all means swing by.

    In addition to open filk space, Capclave has interesting panels, mostly on literary SF, and a fascinating dealers' room. It's a great, and growing, con.

    Capclave is at the Hilton in Rockville, on the Rockville Pike, and near the Rockville Metro station.
    Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
    10:15 pm
    [thnidu]
    new: Scans to Argo
    [EDIT: revised & annotated Oct. 4]

    Scans to Argo

    ttto Banned from Argo, Leslie Fish
    © 2008 thnidu


    When we looked through into our repertoire of songs we'd known for years
    We soon discovered something that confirmed our darkest fears:
    No matter what the tempo, meter, scansion, mood, or rhyme,
    They all assimilated to the same atrocious crime
    Because they...

    Scan to "Argo", every one!
    When you hear that tune, you know you'd better run.
    Two-hundred-fifty parodies, or maybe three- or four-,
    But nothing's safe from "Argo" any more.

    O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.
    One wants to rule the world, the other is insane.
    Allons, enfants de la patrie, le jour est arrivé.
    Let me tell you the story of a man named Charlie on a tragic and fateful day.

    Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
    How many roads must a man walk down?
    When you land on Bailey's 7 you may not like what you see,
    This land was made for you and me.

    Jamye Dawson was the captain of the Christian and her crew
    And they thought they had a ship that the water would never get through.
    Yippee-i-ay, yippee-i-oh, ghost riders in the sky
    How many of them can we make die?

    Twelve thousand, half-million, million and more
    He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor.
    Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen,
    He ran till he came to the farmer's pen.

    Adon olam, asher malach.
    A blind piper played at lakeside and it echoed o'er the Loch.
    Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium,
    Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.

    They scan to "Argo", every one!
    When you hear that tune, you know you'd better run.
    I've murdered twenty songs in just three verses, maybe four,
    And nothing's safe from "Argo" any more.
    (Never was!)

     

    What's whence

    ☉    video
    ♩    audio
    • O beautiful: America the Beautiful *
    • One wants: "Pinky and the Brain" theme, Tom Ruegger/Richard Stone *
    • Allons, enfants: La Marseillaise *
    • Let me: Charlie on the MTA *

      • Amazing grace: Amazing Grace, John Newton *
      • How many roads: Blowing in the Wind, Bob Dylan ☉
      • When you land: Little Fuzzy Animals, Frank Hayes *
      • This land: This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie *
         
    • Twelve thousand: Witnesses' Waltz, Leslie Fish *
    • He stole: Jesse James *
    • Robin Hood: theme of "Robin Hood", 1950s TV series *
    • He ran: The Fox [Went Out on a Chilly Night], Anglo-American folk song *

      • Jamye Dawson: Dawson's "Christian", Duane Elms *
      • And they thought: The Titanic *
      • Yippee-i-ay: Ghost Riders in the Sky, Stan Jones *
      • How many of them: March of Cambreadth, Heather Alexander ♩
         
    • Adon olam: Adon Olam. A Hebrew hymn with a zillion tunes, the first line of one of which is just about identical with BFA until the last note. *
    • A blind piper: Nessie, Come Up, Dr. Jane Robinson. A mashup of the first half of the last verse, for a rhyme for "malach". *
    • Freude: Ode to Joy, Friedrich Schiller. Best known as the chorale in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. *
    • Dysprosium: The Elements, Tom Lehrer ☉


    Current Mood: giggly
    Current Music: the VP debate
    9:59 pm
    [maedbh7]
    ConCertino 2009
    Only 8 months away!?!

    That's right, all you musical people, ConCertino is just around the corner, and we want to make sure you all know about it! We have GUESTS!!! (Click here to read all about them) We are returning to our wonderful Hotel!! (Click here to read about the con rate or click through to read about comfy beds and the yummy swimming pool). Also, we will have programming, but right now we'd rather you clicked on this link to a pdf of our registration form so that you, too, can pre-register for ConCertino2009.

    In the meantime, I promise not to spam all your filk news groups like this every single month from now until June :D However, I DO want you all to know Who We Are. When We Are. What We Will Be Doing. And How You Too Can Join In The Musical Sensation! Add [info]concertino09 to your FilkRead list today. We'll be updating our fabulous LJ community regularly, so Friend us today so you don't miss anything!

    Have a wonderful night, and keep the music coming! -H... (ConCertino ConCom member)

    Current Mood: chipper
    Current Music: Gone Filkin'
    5:36 pm
    [peteralway]
    OVFF Dulcimer Workshop
    I've been invited back to give my beginning Mountain Dulcimer Workshop at OVFF this year (I haven't seen anything on exactly when it will be).

    The mountain dulcimer is the easiest self-accompanying melody instrument to play, and you can also use it as a chord instrument to accompany singing. This workshop is for people who have dulcimers they have been meaning to learn to play, as well as for those who are thinking of picking up a dulcimer, and those who have never played an instrument at all. I plan to have five instruments available for those of you without your own dulcimer.

    I'll cover tuning to DAA, basic melody-drone playing, reading tablature, chords, and fingerpicking. If time permits, we can do some chording and melody-chord playing.

    I look forward to seeing you there.
    Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
    7:28 pm
    [msminlr]
    ping Dan-ad-Nauseam
    Dan, I need a snailmail addy for you, for Mechanical License paperwork on my CD project.
    You can contact me at this same username over at gmail.com
    Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
    10:07 am
    [meltatum]
    I'm not a common man
    Yesterday on the way home from work the classic country station played "Common Man" made famous by John Conlee. That collided in my brain with the economic events of the last week and resulted in the following. Note: I'm not intending to start a political debate - just reflect on the attitudes of a few of the players - and if you aren't familiar with the melody, it can be found several places on the internet, including http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an3ViQ9v4go

    I'm Not a Common Man
    by Mel Tatum

    As the bills came due, the realization grew
    the mortgage bankers were exposed
    They made jillions of loans and now they do moan “we’re sorry but you force us to foreclose.”
    I am CEO of a major bank so some think I must bear fault
    Let me fix misapprehensions and explain to you the way the principles of finance work

    I’m not a common man, I need a bail out plan
    why should I declare bankruptcy?
    I am rich you see, so I am fault free
    The taxpayers should fund my spending spree
    It’s a sound fiscal policy

    I’ll take your Chevrolet as partial pay for all the monies to you we did advance
    It’s all you common people who must really learn
    how to balance all your finances
    as for me it’s easy as a breeze for all to see I get everything I want in life
    Because I did not stop at ruining myself, I sent the whole US into strife

    I’m not a common man, I need a bail out plan
    why should I declare bankruptcy?
    I am rich you see, so I am fault free
    The taxpayers should fund my spending spree
    It’s a sound fiscal policy

    So the Dow Jones is falling free
    And I’ve tanked our economy
    I sure hope that you will see

    I’m not a common man, I need a bail out plan
    why should I declare bankruptcy?
    I am rich you see, so I am fault free
    The taxpayers should fund my spending spree
    It’s a sound fiscal policy

    I’m not a common man, I need a bail out plan
    why should I declare bankruptcy?
    I am rich you see, so I am fault free
    The taxpayers should fund my spending spree
    It’s a sound fiscal policy
    7:21 am
    [quadrivium]
    GAFilk Songbook Deadline . . .
    . . . Is today.


    It's today if you need me to transcribe your song. Basically, if it's waiting in my email box by the time I wake up tomorrow and I have room for it, I can get it done.

    If you want to put in a parody, or you have already transcribed your song(s) into Finale, something Finale can read, or a pdf, jpg, tiff, gif or some such, you may have until November 14, 2008.
    (Pay no attention to those '2007's on the publicity page of Gafilk.org!)

    Please, send your entries to
    songbook@gafilk.org

    Current Mood: sleepy
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